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Released: February 06, 2012
Hospitals mine patient records in search of customers
Source: Phil Galewitz, USA Today [Kaiser Health News]
When the oversized postcard arrived last August from Provena St. Joseph Medical Center promoting a lung cancer screening for current or former smokers over 55, Steven Boyd wondered how the hospital had found him.
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